Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,523 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Vernon Baker (1919-2010)
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Dovey Johnson Roundtree (1914–2018)
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Allen Allensworth (1842-1914)
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The Mills Brothers (1925-1982)

Explore Global African History

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Patient Zero: Thomas Eric Duncan and the Ebola Crisis in West Africa and the United States
South African Freedom Charter document, p. 1
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(1955) The South African Freedom Charter
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Alioune Diop (1910-1980)
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Jean-Bédel Bokassa (1921-1996)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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A Brief History of the San Diego NAACP, 1917-2007
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The Black Diaspora in Israel, 1965 to 2011
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In the Land of Czars and Commissars: African Americans in Russia, the Soviet Union, and Post-Soviet Russia, 1824-2015
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The Harlem Renaissance in the American West

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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